A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Gilgit in Pakistan. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 74.7838° East, 35.7192° North. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/07/24 / 2024-07-03 02:42:51 / July 3, 2024 @ 2:42 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000n9yf. Id of event: us6000n9yf. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:42:51 / 2:42 am (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the event was 48 km (30 miles) from Gilgit (c. 10 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gilgit. Nearby country/countries, Pakistan (c. 184 405 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 48 km ESE of Gilgit, Pakistan.
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